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Here is Bret Devereaux's description: more
> For more than 400 years, historians, myself included, have accepted the… more
> A man named Sean, who works as a military contractor—one of several Green… more
> I am, strictly speaking, an “attender” and not a “member” of my Quaker… more
> I didn't realize that the more popular texts didn't cover the details of… more
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> Bowditch: [...] A spy there under our very roof was our babysitter, Klaus… more
Here's the beginning of the article: more
> After sustained campaigning in Britain, the Slavery Abolition Act came into… more
> Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for… more
> In the 1930s, the Los Angeles Welfare Department began deporting hospital… more
In Bret Devereaux's Fourth of July post, he starts with a bit of history just… more
> Like most people who work with words for a living, I’ve watched the rise of… more
> PALMER: Yeah, so there's two things that protect Florence. One of them, the… more
> Monumental in its conception, extravagant in its execution, and epic in its… more
From Ada Palmer’s guest post on John Scalzi’s blog (promoting her new book): more
> When Duke Cosimo wanted to build his elevated private commuter tunnel, those… more
> The way to understand these coins is this: these societies had already been… more
> The monarch earned a one-time fee from the original minting of the coin. More… more
> […] when we look at history’s major censorious regimes, all of them—I want to… more
Here's the summary: more
> Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Is it fragile? Is it possible? Is it a… more
> Many in the 18th [century] who thought democracy was absurd rejected it… more
> I want my students to come away from my courses not thinking about historical… more
Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
This post is for you if you’ve been wondering whether Black Death =>… more
> [T]he [question] which I am always happiest to get, and which I get… more